Rivia.AI YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Rivia.AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Samay JainFounder

What Rivia.AI does

Rivia.ai empowers marketing, sales, and demand generation teams to effortlessly generate and distribute interactive product demos within 10 minutes. Potential customers of SaaS brands can now personally engage with these self-guided product stories without direct sales interactions. With our user-friendly platform and intuitive dashboards, teams can effortlessly capture, customize, enhance, and share their demos without sound technical expertise. These interactive demos can seamlessly integrate into applications, websites, email campaigns, or ad campaigns.

Rivia.AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rivia.AI, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rivia.AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Interactive Product Demos

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We make a platform that lets marketing and sales teams at SaaS companies create interactive product demos in under 10 minutes without needing engineers. Our users build self-guided, clickable walkthroughs that they can embed in emails, websites, or campaigns to replace long sales calls and let prospects explore products themselves.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We currently live in Bengaluru, KA, India, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is where our team is located, and it's a thriving tech hub with the talent and ecosystem we need. Staying here helps us build efficiently and stay close to early customers and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rivia.AI YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Rivia.AI's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Rivia.AI would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.